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Mission
Harry Weinberg
Trustee Bios
Retrospective
The Weinberg Foundation's Annual Report 2008
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Mission
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc. is dedicated to assisting
the poor, primarily through operating and capital grants to direct service
organizations located in Baltimore, Hawaii, Northeastern Pennsylvania, New
York, Israel and the Former Soviet Union. These grants are focused on meeting
basic needs such as shelter, nutrition, health and socialization and on
enhancing an individual’s ability to meet those needs. Within that
focus, emphasis is placed on the elderly and Jewish communities.
Harry Weinberg (1908-1990)
For Harry Weinberg, business was a talent he learned early in life. Born
in 1908 in Sambur, Galicia, Mr. Weinberg moved to the United States with
his family at the age of four. At the age of ten, the young entrepreneur
could be seen on the streets of downtown Baltimore selling souvenirs to
parade-goers celebrating the end of World War I. Just as Mr. Weinberg showed
exceptional business acumen early in life, so too did he evidence compassion
and generosity at a young age. In the late 1930’s, while still a young
married man with an infant son, he unhesitatingly signed affidavits of support,
pledging his then meager assets to enable many German Jews to reach safe
haven in America.
Although he had no formal education past the sixth grade, assiduous application of his innate genius and outstanding work ethic allowed him to accumulate a vast fortune for the benefit of, in his words, “the poor people.” At one time, he was the largest individual landowner in Hawaii. Simultaneously, he headed a diverse intra-urban transportation empire and, with his wife, caused the creation of and provided the initial funding for the charitable foundation which, he early declared, was to become the recipient of the fruits of his life’s work.
Since its inception in 1959, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has continued to grow and support a myriad of institutions throughout the world. Today, that foundation is one of the largest such institutions in the United States, with assets of approximately $2 billion.
Harry Weinberg died in 1990, little more than a year after the death of
his wife, Jeanette. Their work lives on through the charitable endeavors of The Harry
and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc.
Trustees
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Foundation's New Fifteen-Year Retrospective
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The Weinberg Foundation's Annual Report 2008
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